At the time this indoor picture was taken of a featureless wall, an air quality monitor showed the air quality was very good, with a reading of 45/2 (anything below 50 is "very good" air according to the monitor's back plate). Dust cannot account for the image, because the air was too clean for dust to be a plausible explanation. The image below was color-adjusted using the "Auto-adjust colors" menu option in the IrfanView program.

Reflective surfaces nearby: none. No orbs were seen in photos shortly
before and shortly after this picture was taken, which argues against
any dust explanation. No artificial light was involved in the photo area
except the camera flash. No insects were observed at the photo site.

Here we see what photographers call a "ghosting" effect that is a sign of rapid movement. Given the camera's effective shutter speed of about 1/1000 of a second, an effect like this would never be produced by something like the movement of an insect. The orb was apparently moving much faster than any insect does. No insects were observed at this location.

The turn observed here is a right-angle turn much sharper than insects make.

You can find many other similar examples of moving orbs on this site by selecting the label "speeding air orb."

We see here an orb that displays what photographers call a ghosting effect, caused when an object moves faster than the shutter speed. Since the effective shutter speed of the camera was about 1/1000 of a second, an effect like this indicates a motion that is very fast.

The photos I will present in this post will be powerful evidence against the skeptic's claim that orbs are merely dust (the "orb zone" theory). The series will show three orbs in Grand Central Station. Each orb has the same very distinctive "sawed" appearance, in which we see an orb that looks like it had a chunk of it sawed off. All three orbs appear in the same spot. In each photo, the flat side of the orb is at the same angle of about 45 degrees.

Here is the first photo taken on January 2, 2015.

Here is the 2nd photo taken on January 2, 2015.

Here is the 3rd photo taken on January 2, 2015.

All three photos show this "sawed" orb in about the same spot. The orb has a highly unusual appearance, and it appears with the flat surface inclined at the same angle in each photo, and the same color in each photo. The photos were taken during different minutes, because the people shown are different in each photo. We can ask: what is the chance of us seeing such a thing in three photographs taken on the same day, if the orb is just a random speck of dust a few inches from the camera? No greater than about 1 in a million, I would imagine. Since dust drifts through the air at about two miles an hour, and since the photos were all taken in different minutes, if we imagine that these orbs are all dust particles near the camera, we would have to imagine three different dust particles that coincidentally happened to have had exactly the same unusual appearance, and that appeared at different times in the same spot on the same day. The odds against such a thing are astronomical.

The phenomenon of unexplained plasma-like clouds photographed at ground level is visually documented at this site, at this site, in the book "The Orb Project" by Miceal Ledwith and Klaus Heinemann, Ph.D, and in the book "Beyond Photography: Encounters with Orbs, Angels and Light-Forms," by Katie Hall and John Pickering. The photo discussed here is consistent with these reports.

In this photo taken in front of an old house in New York City, we see a strange unexplained luminous cloud. There was no mist, smoke, steam, or fog visible when the photo was taken. The weather was clear, the temperature was 35 degrees, and the dew point was 23 degrees. I could not see my
own breath in the air during normal breathing. It was no smudge on the lens, as photos taken soon before and after showed no such cloud. Following the terminology used on the "Orbs and More" website (where many similar photos exist), I am calling this a "plasma cloud." Note that part of the cloud seems to resemble the head of an animal.

Photos taken elsewhere four hours later in the night (when it was
colder) produced no trace of such a thing, even when I was deliberately
blowing (which pretty much rules out any "your own breath" hypothesis). I may also note that if this was my own breath it would be in the center of the photo, not only to the right.

On this day I continued to take photos of water drops, photos that showed orbs inside the water drops, orbs that seemed to have faces. On one of the photos I noticed what seemed to be something very unusual. There was at the center of the photo two overlapping orbs (or perhaps a single orb seen twice), both of which seemed to have a face. Above the center were two white streaks. Looking very closely at the white streaks, I could see ever-so-faintly what looked like faces at the end of the streaks.

I formulated a hypothesis about what I was seeing. What seemed to be going on is that orbs were whirling around at high speeds on the outer perimeter of the water drop, like test tubes spinning around in a centrifuge. Since my camera has a shutter speed of 1/2000 of a second, the orbs would have to be moving very fast in order for this type of motion blur to be observed.

I decided to call this effect "the orb centrifuge effect." As time passed, I would document it in very many photographs, some of which showed the moving orbs much more clearly than this photograph.

Below is the photograph where I noticed the effect. At the top we seem to have an orb spinning around the edge of the water drop, in a clockwise motion. At the bottom we seem to have an orb spinning around the edge of the water drop in a counter-clockwise motion.

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Below is a photo taken in Grand Central Station in New York, showing 4 orbs on the ceiling area.

Below is a closeup of the bottom orb ("Auto-adjust colors" was used).

We seem to see a main face, and on the top left, a smaller face, perhaps that of an animal. Since all orbs may be just representations, rather like a finger sketch in the sand, we should not be too surprised to see more than one more face in an orb.

This is a type of air orb I have photographed many times. There
are three common characteristics observed over and over again:
(1) The orb is perfectly circular, and often has an outer ring or "crust" about 5% of its width.
(2) The orb is bright white, with a slightly bumpy appearance,
looking a little like what a pizza maker might have on a pizza
pan just before he poured on the tomato sauce.
(3) The orb has a "split aura" around its outer perimeter, an
aura that is half purplish and half yellow-green or
yellow-orange.

In this case the measured air quality was very good, which pretty much rules out dust as a possible explanation. I have used the IrfanView "Auto-adjust Colors" menu command to make the aura a little more visible.

Dust level: 50/6, very good. Nearby reflective surfaces: none. No orbs shown in photos taken at same location from same angle soon
before and soon after this photo was taken, which argues against any
dust explanation.

In this photo taken from a balcony at Grand Central Station (where there was only clean air in front of me), we see a big bright blue orb near the American flag. At 259 pixels, the orb is 15% of the height of the original photo (1671 pixels). According to those who say that orbs are just dust, dust orbs cannot be bigger than 10% of the photo height. Click to see the full image.

There are two orbs (notice the other one on the left). Here is a closeup of the brighter orb.

Note the prominent outer ring or crust, and the small red feature in the middle.

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Below is a closeup cropped from the center of the photo. On the right half, we see what looks like a smiling face. The orb was apparently speeding, which produces a kind of double-image effect that photographers called ghosting, caused when the speed of an object photographed exceeds the camera's shutter speed. Many more similar examples to come on this blog, and clearer examples will be provided.

In this photo taken in Grand Central Station in New York, we see a huge green orb (click to see the photo at its original resolution). I get tons of blue orbs at this location, but a green orb is rare.

In this indoor photo of a wall, we see a dramatic large orange orb that seems to be making a sharp change in direction, almost a sharp right angle turn. The picture was on the top edge of the photo, so we get to see only part of what was going on.

Dust level: 330/2 (Fair). Reflective surfaces nearby: none. The orb took up about 10% of the full photo (horizontally). No orbs shown in photos taken at same location from same angle soon
before and soon after this photo was taken, which argues against any
dust explanation.

Below is a photo taken in Grand Central Station in New York (click to get the full resolution photo).

We see in this photo an orb over the stars of the US flag. At another moment of the same day, a similar-looking orb also appeared over the stars of the US flag.

The second photo was taken later in the day, as you can tell by the darker floor. If orbs are just specks of dust as skeptics claim, what is the chance that two different specks of dust would both be positioned over the same part of the US flag on the same day? Too small to mention.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

The photo below was taken in Grand Central Station in New York. In the top right corner we see a mysterious blue orb that fits exactly in a little dark space. I will therefore label this as another example of "orb selective positioning."

Below is a water drop photo. The photo was uploaded directly from the camera. Click here to download the image in its full resolution, with the original EXIF metadata proving it is direct from the camera.

Here is a photo cropped from a little above the middle of this photo.

Below is another photo cropped from the top photo. We see a bunch of happy-looking orbs.

The download link at the top is important in establishing that these photos are unaltered. When a photo is made by a camera, it is given EXIF metadata in the image file, metadata that is lost or modified when you save the photo in an image editor. The download link at top takes you to the original camera image with all the original EXIF metadata, something you can inspect by downloading the top image and right clicking on it in Windows to see the original EXIF metadata. You can inspect that data to prove that you have the original camera image before any modification. I would not be supplying the original photo with its original EXIF metadata if I had altered any of the photos shown here.